Letter from Robert Graves, Mallorca, to Brendan Gill, 1971 April 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

Commenting on Nixon, the Pope and the Catholic mass; saying "I keep on being invited to the U.S.A. and refusing to go while Nixon is in office - not that I hope Agnew will take his place, or his successor in office. I have just signed a letter supported by various English intelligentsia to H.H. the Pope begging him to restore the Latin Mass. I never sign letters normally but I had just had an important and successful nose operation, and that weakened my resolution...But here in Spain the Spanish mass is a terrible come down. So is the priest visibly eating and drinking the Sacrament instead of turning decently to the altar. I hope your large family continues Catholic and continues to prosper;" commenting on Alastair Reid and referring to John Russell, British ambassador to Spain, saying "... Russell Pasha's son whom I knew in Egypt when he was 12 years old is our Ambassador here and turning on the heat, as his father did before him...;" referring to a poem Gill had suggested he read saying "Yes, I looked up the poem (which I didn't know was in the N.Y'er) and it is my favourite of the past year. Gives the name to a new limited collection. And is Irish."